ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,443, issued on May 6, was assigned to MATRIXED REALITY TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Wuxi, China).

"Method and apparatus for spatial locating" was invented by Xianwei Lv (Beijing), Zhenxing You (Beijing) and Rui Han (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for spatial locating. The method includes: acquiring feature area information and a current image captured by a camera (102); searching the current image for a feature area of an interactive device based on the feature area information, to determine position information, the position information being used to indicate the position of the feature area in the current ima...